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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute.

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A question for the ladies: do you keep a sweater at your workplace desk even in the summer?

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Or maybe especially in the summer?

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Well, before you go blaming your internal thermostat, listen to this:

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a new study shows that the air conditioning in many buildings is set to keep men feeling comfy.

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The findings are served up in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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People lose productivity when they spend all day shivering or sweating.

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But finding that sweet spot,a temperature where everyone is happy can be a real challenge.

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Offices are heated in winter and chilled in summer.

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But these indoor climate control systems are based on standards established in the 1960s,

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when the standard setters envisioned the typical office worker to be a man, 40-years-old and weighing 150 pounds.

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In the new study, researchers measured the metabolic rate of 16 young women as they performed light office duties.

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And found that the subjects were at a much lower burn than would be men of the accepted standard.

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That means that women in the workplace need less air conditioning to get to their comfort zone.

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And will really chill out with the AC set to 1960.

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The findings also suggest that companies can conserve energy and save money by taking into consideration the ages, sexes and body sizes of their employees.

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And that just might stop them from giving us gals the cold shoulder.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science.I'm Karen Hopkin.

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